T500 ati 4650 refresh soon?

When do you think it will be updated from the 3650?  Thanks!
Thinkpad T500 - Intel Core2 P8400 (2.26GHz), 4 gigs of ram, 160GB/7200rpm hard drive, ATI 3650 GPU, WSXGA+ panel

Lenovo usually don't update graphics card till new model are released. Like T60 -> T61 -> T400/T500.... so if there will be a update it will probably when new model comes in . 
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Jin Li
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